I've been noticing that alot of the older Canadian nickels are worth some money! Not alot but for the nickels that are dated 1925 and around that area go for $50 or so. Anyone from Canada or elsewhere know where I can get some info on these? Ebays prices cover such a huge spread, it's really hard to see what something is actually worth. thx
I remember plenty of those George V coins passing for face in Maine in the mid 1950's. The cents and nickels were quite well preserved but the silver coins could be dateless.
From 1858 until 1925 the Canadian nickel was .925 silver,in 1926 this was changed to pure nickel and continued until 1978. Low mint numbers in the earlier years and for certain issues account for high prices on quality pieces
Here's one from my own collection with a link to a great coin place in Vancouver https://www.jandm.com/script/getitem.asp?CID=3&PID=83
According to Charlton's "Canadian Coins" , pure nickel 5 cent pieces were made 1922-1981. Exceptions were: Most of 1942 tombac All of 1943 tombac A few 1944 tombac Most 1944 steel plated with nickel plated with chromium All 1945 steel plated with nickel plated with chromium Minority of 1951 steel plated with nickel plated with chromium all 1952 -1962 steel plated with nickel plated with chromium
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][SIZE=-2]Coins from 1953-1964 (Laureate Bust) weigh 4.54 grams, with a diameter of 21.3 mm (opposite corners) 20.9 mm (opposite sides) and a thickness of 1.7 mm. They have a composition of (1953-54) steel with .0127 mm nickel plating and .0003 mm chromium plating (1955-1964).99 nickel. Coins from 1965-1978 (Tiara Obverse) weigh 4.54 grams, with a diameter of 21.21 mm and a thickness of 1.7 mm. They have a composition of .99 nickel. Coins from 1979-date weigh 4.54 grams, with a diameter of 21.21 mm. They have a composition of (1979-1981) .99 nickel (1982-date).75 copper, .25 nickel[/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][SIZE=-2]Coins weigh 4.54 grams, with a diameter of 21.21 mm and a thickness of 1.7 mm. They have a composition of .99 nickel.[/SIZE] [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=-1]After two years of planning, this piece was introduced in 1922 made of pure nickel.[/SIZE]
I find it interesting that metric Canada has 100 nickels to the pound while the English system USA has exactly 5 grams per nickel.
Whats even stranger is we didn't go metric until 1970 and we all thought we would hate it I started high school that year talk about mind altering
